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Doing a series of especially Blasian stars would be awesome, hearing how it was for them coming up in the industry. Would love a Tasha interview, its well recorded how much she went through back in the late 90's even at the hands of the Korean Government. She needs to be recognized more as the original and first lady of Hip Hop and R&B in Korea, she is the blueprint but also original and never to be duplicated.
Crystal Kay was so important to me as a blasian kid I was lucky to find her album over 20 years ago thrifting in Amsterdam back then nobody was really into Japanese or Korean stuff (I used to blind buy Cd albums stuff from yesasia back then haha) I was really lucky finding her album so randomly artists like her and Yoon Mirea/Tasha made me so happy as I saw other blasian people in a pop culture I was into and there weren’t that many other blasians doing their thing. When it comes to representation of diversity this is such a better time for a lot of people and I hope it will get even better in the future!
Omg how did you get this interview?! She’s literally an icon in Japan and was the pioneer for mixed race acts period. I love how down to earth she continues to be considering what she did for the Japanese music industry at such a young age. We love you Crystal. Her new single called Love Yourself is a whole bop too!!!
That's not true. She's well known, and I really like her, but she's not an icon nor a pioneer for biracial performers in Japan. There have been plenty of biracial performers in the entertainment industry, even way back in the Showa era.
@@TheAerialgreen You say not an icon or a pioneer, as though there can only be one in music history? It's a strange and negative take to have. When it comes to 2000s j-pop and r&b, and Black people singing in Japan Crystal is absolutely an icon and one of the most well known impactful artists.
@@TheAerialgreen if that’s the case, name them. Other than Crystal Kay, I can’t think of anybody else, let alone anyone who’d be deemed as iconic as a biracial artist in Japan.
Crystal is so right about Japan being self-sufficient and not as hungry for global success, which is valid, but at the same time Japan / J-pop has so many talented artists and art forms that I believe deserve worldwide recognition!! I recently got into Psychic Fever from Exile Tribe because they went viral on TikTok. They also have a half Nigerian member and half moroccan/korean member who definitely would be popular in the west.
I thought for a long time that Japan has so many top-tier artists as good as Korea that the rest of the world should know about but yea I've also heard that Japan makes already a lot of profit from their own people so they don't necessarily need to go global I also think there is more diversity in Japanese mainstream in both genres and more people of other races without changing their natural looks
Agreed, most artists that people know come from anime. Thankfully, I got introduced to Creepy Nuts, Ado, and more, which got me into their music. I wish people knew more about them. I learned about One Ok in high school, listening to a shuffle music playlist on RUclips. Also, same with Psychic Fever.
@@moglom93 Plus Japanese corporations ACTIVELY struck down stuff on RUclips for years and years, especially Avex. So it was very hard for international fandoms to get into it and spread it around like K-pop did.
I am Japanese and have been living in the United States since I was 15 years old. I can relate so much to what Crystal mentioned. If I hadn’t come to the U.S., I don’t think I would have realized how important it is for everyone to have self-confidence and maintain a positive mindset. Living here, I can’t remain the typical quiet Japanese person. I truly wish that in Japan, people were taught to be more confident and to embrace who they are. It’s okay to acknowledge your strengths and proudly say, ‘I’m good at this.’ Since becoming a mother, I’ve come to realize how much this attitude can impact children. In Japanese culture, when someone gives you a compliment, it’s common to deny it. For instance, if someone says, ‘You’re so cute,’ the typical response would be, ‘No, I’m not.’ In contrast, I was surprised to see how often parents in the U.S. openly compliment children. When children constantly hear this kind of self-denial, it can lead them to develop negative feelings about themselves, like thinking they’re not good enough, which undermines their confidence. I believe there are many wonderful aspects of Japanese culture, but I really wish we could adopt this aspect of American culture, where self-affirmation and confidence are encouraged.
This interview brings me soooooo much joy! From the very start, you both do an amazing job contextualizing Crystal Kay's success and the unique experience of growing up in the South while finding representation through a budding platform like RUclips. As someone from Alabama who often felt like an outsider but found solace in J-pop, Crystal Kay's music resonated deeply with me. I fell in love with her voice through Fullmetal Alchemist's ending theme, "Motherland," and seeing this interview brings back all the nostalgia. It’s incredible how something that once felt so niche is now normalized, yet the emotions still hit the same. Thank you for this gem!
I loved hearing this interview!!! I am Korean and black as well and learned about her wayyyyyyy back in the day and always wondered about her story but never found many interviews with her. Thank you for taking the time to spotlight her life and work!!! 🙏🏾
My college kids and I met her father in Costco of all places. He was a very nice man. We were looking at some Japanese cookies and he gave us some advice and we struck up a conversation about Japan. He was surprised but happy my kids knew who is daughter is.
CKay is one of my favorite JPop artists. She along with Hikaru Utada and Jero was a big inspiration for me to start singing in Japanese. Two of my favorite CK songs are Goodbye my Darling and Kirakuni, the latter of which was produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis - Janet Jackson’s producers since Control. She also did an amazing interview for Shabera Night with Alicia Keys! 😊 it would be such a dream to watch her live!
Brought me back to my adolescence. I first learned about crystal kay through her m-flo colab cuz i was obsessed with m-flo at the time. Then i went on to follow her career, and she is definitely an amazing, talented pioneer with a beautiful voice. I would love to see her do more collabs with american artists. That would be so dope. And omg is it possible for her to be more gorgeous today than I remember 15 years ago??
OMG! Shouts out big time to everyone who made this interview happen. This interview has made my day. I love her. Kirakuni is one of my favorites on my stress release playlist. Keep up the great work!
This is such a great interview! I have always liked her voice and her songs mixed with a lot of English. Thanks a lot to both of you, Max and Crystal! Much kudos!! これからも応援してます〜
@@naotookamura6280 thanks same here, like I said in the video I first found her around 2004, so it was so great to finally make this happen 20 years later 🙏
I also immensely enjoyed watching your recent interviews with Joshua and Grace Aimi. It was so good that you brought out not-so-talked-about side of Joshua, like his high-school days in Niiza. That was hilarious. Look forward to watching more interesting interviews from you!
35:35 anisongs is one way to do it. A LOT of big international tours are through their work in anime. There are exceptions of course like BabyMetal. Regardless her talent is undeniable and interviews like this help spread awareness her music even further!
Another fascinating and illuminating conversation. There is nothing quite like people's life-stories to connect with one's own path--no matter what our similarities and differences.
It was great seeing her. It's good to see her doing more interviews. I remember first listening to her song Candy. I really got into listening to Japanese music at the time because of her and Ken Hirai.
OMG I totally forgot Crystal Kay existed! I used to listen to her so much back then! And this vid randomly pops up reminding of her and her awesome music!!!
Like Crystal. I grew up as a military dependent and attended Yamato/Yokota High Schools in the 70s. What was wonderful was the large number of bi-racial kids, dads who were US Military, along with Japanese kids who were getting an American style education. It was a melting pot of all kinds of nationalities. I grew up listening to JPOP along with American music. Even in the 70s there was a hafu(half) girl group called Golden Half with Japanese girls who were bi-racial. I got into Crystal in early 2000s and have loved all of her music. Thanks for this interview. She amazingly looks like she did over 20 years ago!
Christal Kay is a B-I-G celebrity in Japan with many hit songs for decades. Wow, I didn't even know she spoke fluent English, haha. I'm in the US, double haha.
omg. listening this interview is like how my Japanese-American buddy talk. all the flipflopping from English to Japanse! We used to play a drinking game of making each other switch from English to Japanese or Japanese to English lol
I met Crystal once in NYC back in 2013. She was surprised I knew who she was, and she was really nice. I didn't want to bother her or come off as an annoying fan, so I just told her I loved her work and wished her a good night. It was at a party, and I ended up helping her find the bathroom, lol. I'm still sad I can't make it to her AWA performance this week because I can't afford to travel to Atlanta on short notice. I should've asked for a picture, but oh well, we live and learn. At least I got to meet her! I think I first discovered her around 2003 or 2004, when I was a young weeb. I found her music on a J-pop CD, I think it had 'Candy' on it. I also remember seeing her on a show called POP Japan TV on the International Channel, where they played the music video for 'Motherland.' A few months to a year later, I heard 'Motherland' again when it was featured in Full Metal Alchemist on Adult Swim.
I am a Black American with two Black parents and I remember discovering Crystal Kay led teenage me to feel a sense of belonging when I otherwise felt so alienated. I was never interested in things that people thought I should be interested in just because they’re stereotypically Black culture. I was interested in other cultures including Korean and Japanese, and Crystal Kay to me symbolized that I was welcome, I belonged, that cultures could mix and I had a place in these other cultures despite my skin color. I’m sure it must have been a heavy burden for her but looking back she did a lot for a lot of people just by existing and performing in the mainstream. 🙏🏾 Music = the world indeed and I love that today kids don’t have to get bullied by adults and peers alike simply for their interests and multicultural values.
LOVE this interview!! Crystal is so cool and down to Earth! The "Asian don't raisin, Black don't crack" in Japanese was hilarious! Congratulations Crystal to 25 years!
33:29 I remember when Anna was apart of FAKY years ago. The band just recently dissolved after multiple reboots with different members after two original members and then Anna left. I'm glad her career is skyrocketing still.
I can listen to M-FLO 150 song album and be very happy. I am happy I seen this interview with Crystal K and to gain insight into her struggles and mindset. She accomplished a lot and I hope to listen to more of her songs. I pray for her safety and success.
Crystal Kay Williams is a Japanese singer, songwriter, actress and radio host. After releasing her first single, "Eternal Memories", Crystal Kay gained fame for her third studio album, Almost Seventeen, which debuted at number 2 on the Japanese Oricon charts. she usually sings with Namie Amuro, a JPop Queen. 💪💯💯 Crystal Kay was born in Yokohama, Japan, making her Japanese by birth.
Wow, I've used to listen to Crystal Kay since high school. Would love to see a future collab with Yoon Mirei who's also half Korean. Just my wishful thinking.
Omg!!!!!! I used to listen to her music in middle school when back in the early 2000s when comcast had an Asian music section. So glad to see her! Her and dbsk were my intro to Asian pop music.
OMFGGGG… I love her soooo much!!!! Almost Seventeen & Crystal Style are in my top 10 life albums. I hope to executive produce an album for her and just wish her more success and more fame and more happiness…
Crystal Kay is one of my favorite Asian Singers....I've followed her career since I discovered her on Pop Japan TV back in 2004. We have a Japanese Event called JapanFest that happens every year here in Atlanta Georgia and I go every year hoping that she would be there 😢
i remember Crystal and her Kinnick crew when I was doing security for Odoriya and all the parties way back in the yokosuka days , knew her father , great musician also , big ups Crystal
Avril Lavigne is our Canadian homegirl who has been an "inspiration in Japan" (Get it?! ANA callback!) for so many female Jpop idols. I hope she realizes that. And I hope these two have seen the Kim family version of APT! Jong-Un and his crazy sister rocking out! Better watch out Bruno and Rose!
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who is she i dont even know her
you should do a better job of protecting your energy. You've got sneaky folks slipping behind your face fucking over your fans. 💫
My wife introduced me to Crystal Kay! Her music from the early 2000s is iconic 😎
Doing a series of especially Blasian stars would be awesome, hearing how it was for them coming up in the industry. Would love a Tasha interview, its well recorded how much she went through back in the late 90's even at the hands of the Korean Government. She needs to be recognized more as the original and first lady of Hip Hop and R&B in Korea, she is the blueprint but also original and never to be duplicated.
Crystal Kay was so important to me as a blasian kid I was lucky to find her album over 20 years ago thrifting in Amsterdam back then nobody was really into Japanese or Korean stuff (I used to blind buy Cd albums stuff from yesasia back then haha) I was really lucky finding her album so randomly artists like her and Yoon Mirea/Tasha made me so happy as I saw other blasian people in a pop culture I was into and there weren’t that many other blasians doing their thing. When it comes to representation of
diversity this is such a better time for a lot of people and I hope it will get even better in the future!
Wow, I feel old. I remember listening to that rewind song she did with Mflo years ago. Thanks for this.
Yep, same here that was years ago as in 2003!
Oh yeah rewind is great I love that song❤
I loved her love don't cry song with them as well
CRYSTAL KAY IS A LEGEND. all of her songs are amazing. stream her on spotify!!!
She’s on Apple Music too!
It’s a shame that “Kirakuni” still isn’t available on streaming globally.
Omg how did you get this interview?! She’s literally an icon in Japan and was the pioneer for mixed race acts period. I love how down to earth she continues to be considering what she did for the Japanese music industry at such a young age. We love you Crystal. Her new single called Love Yourself is a whole bop too!!!
That's not true. She's well known, and I really like her, but she's not an icon nor a pioneer for biracial performers in Japan. There have been plenty of biracial performers in the entertainment industry, even way back in the Showa era.
@@TheAerialgreen You say not an icon or a pioneer, as though there can only be one in music history? It's a strange and negative take to have. When it comes to 2000s j-pop and r&b, and Black people singing in Japan Crystal is absolutely an icon and one of the most well known impactful artists.
@@diskea Luckily became mutual friends with her High School friend 10 years ago, and he linked us up recently. Shout out to Colin! 😂
Crystal Kay was born in Yokohama, Japan, making her Japanese by birth.
@@TheAerialgreen if that’s the case, name them. Other than Crystal Kay, I can’t think of anybody else, let alone anyone who’d be deemed as iconic as a biracial artist in Japan.
FULL METAL ALCHEMIST MENTIONED!!!
@@Kojimochi might need to do a rewatch soon
Crystal is so right about Japan being self-sufficient and not as hungry for global success, which is valid, but at the same time Japan / J-pop has so many talented artists and art forms that I believe deserve worldwide recognition!! I recently got into Psychic Fever from Exile Tribe because they went viral on TikTok. They also have a half Nigerian member and half moroccan/korean member who definitely would be popular in the west.
I thought for a long time that Japan has so many top-tier artists as good as Korea that the rest of the world should know about but yea I've also heard that Japan makes already a lot of profit from their own people so they don't necessarily need to go global I also think there is more diversity in Japanese mainstream in both genres and more people of other races without changing their natural looks
Agreed, most artists that people know come from anime. Thankfully, I got introduced to Creepy Nuts, Ado, and more, which got me into their music. I wish people knew more about them. I learned about One Ok in high school, listening to a shuffle music playlist on RUclips. Also, same with Psychic Fever.
@@moglom93 Plus Japanese corporations ACTIVELY struck down stuff on RUclips for years and years, especially Avex. So it was very hard for international fandoms to get into it and spread it around like K-pop did.
@@Karzeon oh really? I didn't know about that but I do think Japan can be quite exclusive so a lot of things doesn’t reach the rest of the world
no they wouldnt there chopped
She went platinum in my black household!!!!
This Queen is so influential and amazing that sometimes we forget she’s also an individual with her own challenges. Love this interview.
omg crystal kay, what a gem. i really love her song Konna ni Chikaku de
That was my JAM in my teens 😂 Her voice is so beautiful.
I am Japanese and have been living in the United States since I was 15 years old. I can relate so much to what Crystal mentioned. If I hadn’t come to the U.S., I don’t think I would have realized how important it is for everyone to have self-confidence and maintain a positive mindset. Living here, I can’t remain the typical quiet Japanese person. I truly wish that in Japan, people were taught to be more confident and to embrace who they are. It’s okay to acknowledge your strengths and proudly say, ‘I’m good at this.’
Since becoming a mother, I’ve come to realize how much this attitude can impact children. In Japanese culture, when someone gives you a compliment, it’s common to deny it. For instance, if someone says, ‘You’re so cute,’ the typical response would be, ‘No, I’m not.’ In contrast, I was surprised to see how often parents in the U.S. openly compliment children. When children constantly hear this kind of self-denial, it can lead them to develop negative feelings about themselves, like thinking they’re not good enough, which undermines their confidence.
I believe there are many wonderful aspects of Japanese culture, but I really wish we could adopt this aspect of American culture, where self-affirmation and confidence are encouraged.
You Rock!!🎉🙏🥇💪💯😻🌸😎🎈🧧
This interview brings me soooooo much joy! From the very start, you both do an amazing job contextualizing Crystal Kay's success and the unique experience of growing up in the South while finding representation through a budding platform like RUclips. As someone from Alabama who often felt like an outsider but found solace in J-pop, Crystal Kay's music resonated deeply with me. I fell in love with her voice through Fullmetal Alchemist's ending theme, "Motherland," and seeing this interview brings back all the nostalgia. It’s incredible how something that once felt so niche is now normalized, yet the emotions still hit the same. Thank you for this gem!
That song came to mind as soon as I saw her name!!
I loved hearing this interview!!! I am Korean and black as well and learned about her wayyyyyyy back in the day and always wondered about her story but never found many interviews with her. Thank you for taking the time to spotlight her life and work!!! 🙏🏾
The quality of this interview! You really outdid yourself this time max!
The way I cried. I LOVE Crystal Kay!!!
Thank you for bringing one of my favorite singers from high school (‘09 baby!)
Love your interview with one of my favorite singers. I turned 71 today and it's a great way to start my day. Well done Max. Well done.
Wow so cool you were able to interview Crystal Kay!
Thankfully a mutual friend who went to high school with her linked us up! Shout out to Collin haha
I love how you started out the interview... it seemed like you were both so at ease. Awesome video.
Thanks! Usually I like just chatting with guests while setting up and figuring out the vibe from the jump :)
OMG I grew up listening to & watching Crystal Kay everywhere!!! Love her so much!!!
Same same! Time to go on a music binge!
@@MaxDCapo You have no idea!!! I would listen to like her CDs till like 6am in the morning when I was in college 🤣🤣🤣
My college kids and I met her father in Costco of all places. He was a very nice man. We were looking at some Japanese cookies and he gave us some advice and we struck up a conversation about Japan. He was surprised but happy my kids knew who is daughter is.
CKay is one of my favorite JPop artists. She along with Hikaru Utada and Jero was a big inspiration for me to start singing in Japanese. Two of my favorite CK songs are Goodbye my Darling and Kirakuni, the latter of which was produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis - Janet Jackson’s producers since Control. She also did an amazing interview for Shabera Night with Alicia Keys! 😊 it would be such a dream to watch her live!
H O L Y C O W! You landed an interview with Crystal Kay?! Congrats, Max!
Brought me back to my adolescence. I first learned about crystal kay through her m-flo colab cuz i was obsessed with m-flo at the time. Then i went on to follow her career, and she is definitely an amazing, talented pioneer with a beautiful voice. I would love to see her do more collabs with american artists. That would be so dope. And omg is it possible for her to be more gorgeous today than I remember 15 years ago??
OMG! Shouts out big time to everyone who made this interview happen. This interview has made my day. I love her. Kirakuni is one of my favorites on my stress release playlist. Keep up the great work!
Crystal ❤ we met her in NY a few years ago she's an icon and a queen ❤
This is such a great interview! I have always liked her voice and her songs mixed with a lot of English. Thanks a lot to both of you, Max and Crystal! Much kudos!! これからも応援してます〜
@@naotookamura6280 thanks same here, like I said in the video I first found her around 2004, so it was so great to finally make this happen 20 years later 🙏
I also immensely enjoyed watching your recent interviews with Joshua and Grace Aimi. It was so good that you brought out not-so-talked-about side of Joshua, like his high-school days in Niiza. That was hilarious. Look forward to watching more interesting interviews from you!
I love her speaking voice and her laugh! Reminds me of late night DJs I used to listen to as a kid.
ケイちゃん、25周年おめでとう！！
THANK YOU so much for this interview. Love, love, *loved* it! Tysm for the interview with Crystal Kay. 💕
You're so lucky to have a chance for an interview with her. She is such a great singer. I like her the way she is.
35:35 anisongs is one way to do it. A LOT of big international tours are through their work in anime. There are exceptions of course like BabyMetal.
Regardless her talent is undeniable and interviews like this help spread awareness her music even further!
Another fascinating and illuminating conversation. There is nothing quite like people's life-stories to connect with one's own path--no matter what our similarities and differences.
Crystal Kay and Utada Hikaru were my intro to Jpop when I was in my early twenties! It’s so nice to see her again!🎉
I remember her when I lived in Japan 20 years ago. She still looks flipping amazing! She was so popular. Great singer.
It was great seeing her. It's good to see her doing more interviews. I remember first listening to her song Candy. I really got into listening to Japanese music at the time because of her and Ken Hirai.
OMG I totally forgot Crystal Kay existed! I used to listen to her so much back then! And this vid randomly pops up reminding of her and her awesome music!!!
i've been a fan of crystal kay since basically her debut! her music never disappoints and i wish more people knew about her!
She is so cooool!! Great interview Max 🎉
She is and so are you!!
She's super cool and chill, and seems friendly and approachable. I haven't heard her since the original Fullmetal Alchemist
As a blasian girl growing up, I looked up to crystal, amerie, and debelah morgan. crystal was definitely one of my first introductions into j-pop.
Like Crystal. I grew up as a military dependent and attended Yamato/Yokota High Schools in the 70s. What was wonderful was the large number of bi-racial kids, dads who were US Military, along with Japanese kids who were getting an American style education. It was a melting pot of all kinds of nationalities. I grew up listening to JPOP along with American music. Even in the 70s there was a hafu(half) girl group called Golden Half with Japanese girls who were bi-racial. I got into Crystal in early 2000s and have loved all of her music. Thanks for this interview. She amazingly looks like she did over 20 years ago!
Product of Japanese Female + White Male
THE VOICE AND FASHION INSPO OF MY HIGH SCHOOL YEARS AAAAAAAAGH
She’s so cool ! Great interview 🙏
I used to play basketball with her pops at lunch time back in the day. He was the first person I knew with a 700 series BMW
I been listening to Crystal Kay for 20 years, I'm glad this interview found me
恋に落ちたら♩を毎日聴いてました。切ない思い出が蘇ります
LOVE CRYSTAL KAY😘
She’s a legend!!
Christal Kay is a B-I-G celebrity in Japan with many hit songs for decades. Wow, I didn't even know she spoke fluent English, haha. I'm in the US, double haha.
omg. listening this interview is like how my Japanese-American buddy talk. all the flipflopping from English to Japanse! We used to play a drinking game of making each other switch from English to Japanese or Japanese to English lol
This is incredible! Crystal is such an icon. One of the best!
Crystal Kay! I remember hearing her songs on a Japanese tv program when I used to live in NY!
She's awesome!
THISSS INTERVIEWWWWWW! Sitting down to watch now in full excitement❤️
I met Crystal once in NYC back in 2013. She was surprised I knew who she was, and she was really nice. I didn't want to bother her or come off as an annoying fan, so I just told her I loved her work and wished her a good night. It was at a party, and I ended up helping her find the bathroom, lol. I'm still sad I can't make it to her AWA performance this week because I can't afford to travel to Atlanta on short notice. I should've asked for a picture, but oh well, we live and learn. At least I got to meet her! I think I first discovered her around 2003 or 2004, when I was a young weeb. I found her music on a J-pop CD, I think it had 'Candy' on it. I also remember seeing her on a show called POP Japan TV on the International Channel, where they played the music video for 'Motherland.' A few months to a year later, I heard 'Motherland' again when it was featured in Full Metal Alchemist on Adult Swim.
Crystal Kay is so cool, congrats.
I am a Black American with two Black parents and I remember discovering Crystal Kay led teenage me to feel a sense of belonging when I otherwise felt so alienated. I was never interested in things that people thought I should be interested in just because they’re stereotypically Black culture. I was interested in other cultures including Korean and Japanese, and Crystal Kay to me symbolized that I was welcome, I belonged, that cultures could mix and I had a place in these other cultures despite my skin color. I’m sure it must have been a heavy burden for her but looking back she did a lot for a lot of people just by existing and performing in the mainstream. 🙏🏾 Music = the world indeed and I love that today kids don’t have to get bullied by adults and peers alike simply for their interests and multicultural values.
Yes, me too!
CRYSTAL KAT YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS
REEEWIND! was such a bop for me
Shes a great inspiration for me as a foreigner that wants to be a singer in Japan.❤
Her english is pretty easy to catch. I love her music much as well especially Kirakuni
I've been listening to her for over a decade
LOVE this interview!! Crystal is so cool and down to Earth! The "Asian don't raisin, Black don't crack" in Japanese was hilarious! Congratulations Crystal to 25 years!
I remember first hearing her because of M-Flo. Still love her!
I absolutely love her since I can remember. I wish they know more about her here. She's beautiful.
Omg such a fun interview!! ^^
33:29 I remember when Anna was apart of FAKY years ago. The band just recently dissolved after multiple reboots with different members after two original members and then Anna left. I'm glad her career is skyrocketing still.
I graduated the same univsersity. And I am so proud of you!
I fell in love with her when she performed “Motherland”
I LOVE CRYSTAL KAY SO MUCHHHHHH
Please interview Yuna Ito!! I would love to see that ❤
I hope she’ll be able to tour America one day and I can afford it 😢
Her voice is surprisingly beautiful.
Great interview - wow! I can't believe that you got an interview with Crystal. Beautiful and intelligent.
Thanks so much! yeah I’m still very grateful she was down to do this. She’s a great person on and off camera.
I can listen to M-FLO 150 song album and be very happy. I am happy I seen this interview with Crystal K and to gain insight into her struggles and mindset. She accomplished a lot and I hope to listen to more of her songs. I pray for her safety and success.
Her song Kirakuni is such a bop! It’s like one of her only English songs. It could’ve been a big RnB hit in America too when it came out
It is amazing how you could get this interview. 羨ましい
We love you here in the U.S.
I wish she would do a U.S tour.
I have every one of her CDs Crystal Style is the dopest album and her mflo Collab are pure butter
I remember discovering her from Pop Japan TV back in the day. How time flies!
Crystal Kay Williams is a Japanese singer, songwriter, actress and radio host. After releasing her first single, "Eternal Memories", Crystal Kay gained fame for her third studio album, Almost Seventeen, which debuted at number 2 on the Japanese Oricon charts. she usually sings with Namie Amuro, a JPop Queen. 💪💯💯 Crystal Kay was born in Yokohama, Japan, making her Japanese by birth.
She’s Japanese by birth but has no Japanese roots though…
@@Kev27RSdoes this really matter? She is an amazing artist first!
Wow, I've used to listen to Crystal Kay since high school. Would love to see a future collab with Yoon Mirei who's also half Korean. Just my wishful thinking.
She's aged somehow backwards in 25 years! I remember seeing her on tv when I was on exhanged in Fukuoka when I was 16. I'm... not 16 now. haha!
Wow she makes the Japanese language sound so awesome ❤❤❤
Omg!!!!!! I used to listen to her music in middle school when back in the early 2000s when comcast had an Asian music section. So glad to see her! Her and dbsk were my intro to Asian pop music.
Thanks for this interview. Interesting, exciting and informative.
I've been a fan of her for ages I played Almost Seventeen everyday when I was turning 17
I'm African American and 45 and have been keeping up with singers like Crystal Kay and Tasha for years.
Anyone else remember her from the ending theme song of Nodame Cantabile.. I still listen to that song till this day ❤ Much love from South Africa 😊
OMFGGGG… I love her soooo much!!!! Almost Seventeen & Crystal Style are in my top 10 life albums. I hope to executive produce an album for her and just wish her more success and more fame and more happiness…
Crystal Kay is one of my favorite Asian Singers....I've followed her career since I discovered her on Pop Japan TV back in 2004. We have a Japanese Event called JapanFest that happens every year here in Atlanta Georgia and I go every year hoping that she would be there 😢
I been a fan of Crystal Kay's since the early 2000s.
I totally listened to her while learning Japanese. The language didn't stick but the songs did!
I love Crystal Kay!
i remember Crystal and her Kinnick crew when I was doing security for Odoriya and all the parties way back in the yokosuka days , knew her father , great musician also , big ups Crystal
Avril Lavigne is our Canadian homegirl who has been an "inspiration in Japan" (Get it?! ANA callback!)
for so many female Jpop idols. I hope she realizes that. And I hope these two have seen the Kim family
version of APT! Jong-Un and his crazy sister rocking out! Better watch out Bruno and Rose!
The QUEEN!!!!!
Why does Wikipedia wrongly list this person as 38 years old?
As a long time fan of JPop , its nice to see someone who kinda looks like me doing big things in the JPOP scene
I love her!!! One of my fav singers of all time ❤❤❤
「LOST CHILD」が大好きすぎる
That's Crystal Kay....Jesus, I remember her when I was in middle school...I'm 31 now😅 she looks amazing!